Example sentences of "now [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |
| 2 | Now I am virtually claiming in this quotation that drama is about the ‘ personalising ’ of objects . |
| 3 | Now I am suitably softened up , what more can you say to persuade me to give everything up to Benedict ? ’ |
| 4 | Now I am truly crushed ; the wind 's smacked out of me . |
| 5 | Now I am fully entitled under the laws of this state to regard your affairs as confidential . |
| 6 | Now I was finally growing up . |
| 7 | By now I was thoroughly enjoying this superb route with its delightful sloping traverse , then the last steep arête to an abrupt finish on Wimbledon turf . |
| 8 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 9 | Right now I 'm here to say that ‘ MOR ’ is cheeky and angry and much too big for its platform boots ; in other words the single the Manics always should have made . |
| 10 | because I look for the men , now I 'm just joking |
| 11 | Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . |
| 12 | Oh a little respect Oh right now I 'm just taping it . |
| 13 | And so now I 'm just starting to become vaguely house proud . |
| 14 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 15 | This morning we slipped into Mansfield for coffee and a haircut ; and now I 'm just waiting to be relieved , and rush to the letter rack . |
| 16 | But now I 'm finally getting to that burner . ’ |
| 17 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 18 | I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry . |
| 19 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |
| 20 | One by one my orders for leather have fallen away , ’ he paused , his voice sinking lower , ‘ now I 'm almost ruined . ’ |
| 21 | Now I 'm really enjoying it . ’ |
| 22 | I used to approach my future like a loose cannon , but now I 'm really trying to do the best work I can because I think about my daughter all the time . |
| 23 | Now I 'm really looking forward to those shows , it gets better every day . |
| 24 | ‘ But now I 'm really beginning to feel I belong . ’ |
| 25 | And now somebody 's probably tipped him off that the police are on to him and he 's doing what they all do , running off to Spain where they ca n't get him . |
| 26 | By now you are probably receiving lots of Christmas cards . |
| 27 | " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . " |
| 28 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 29 | Nobody 's stolen anything from you , you stole it all yourself and sent it abroad , and now you 're just looking for someone to blame . |
| 30 | You got nowhere and the reason leaked away and now you 're just doing it . |